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the colgate maroon four changes ecology supplement - see page 5 founded 1868 vol chi colgate university hamilton n.y october 14.1970 no 11 marcuse marxist philosohpher to lecture in chapel tonight by cathy finkelstein for an analysis of marcuses thought see page 10 dr herbert marcuse new left theorist and educator will speak tonight at 8:00 p.m at the colgate memorial chapel in the second program to be presented by the colgate university union board lecture series when i came to this country in the thirties marcuse once observed there was a spirit of hope in the air now i detect a militarism and a repression that calls to mind the terror of nazi germany a jewish refugee from hitler's germany in 1933 marcuse has changed over the years from a new deal admirer to the political philosopher of today's campus revolutionaries in 1951 marcuses book eros and civilization outlined his theory that history is an end less confrontation between reason and imposed ignorance dominated by a ruling class that will resort to anything to pre serve its privilege he merged freudian and marxist philo sophies and preached sexual as well as economic liberation for the oppressed one-dimensional man marcuses second book has been called the bible of the new left he criticized american society as an industrial experi ment in which the logic of domination has triumphed he expressed his growing fear for those who found their soul in a split level home and who pas sively accept the limited af fluence of america abram sachar president of brandeis university hired the avowed marxist as a professor of politics at the young university in 1951 it was here that mar cuse espoused his theories that left their mark on many of his students abbie hoffman yip pie leader and angela davis were among marcuses pupils although marcuse holds a grim view of the future his one hope is that there will be a vic tory of reason brought about by a student-worder revolution this revolution he predicted will be as violent as the violence it combats despite the fact that he once worked for the state depart ment marcuse has been a voci ferous critic of american policy in vietnam since 1965 he sees pointless wars and weapons as a way in which the ruling class continues its domination at 71 marcuse has split philosophically with the revolu tionaries he has spawned lack of organization among the radi cal left has moved marcuse to remark that spontaniety is not enough it is necessary to have organization i cannot imagine how one can combat a society that is mobilized and organized in its totality against any revolu tionary movement against any effective opposition i do not see how one can combat such a society such a concentrated force - military force police force etc â€” without any organi zation it won't work ' dr herbert marcuse senate urges language requirement study by margaret digan the student senate passed a resolution monday night urging the academic affairs commission to conduct a study of the present foreign language requirement and recomment any pertinent changes which they deem necessary the resolution was sponsored by senator ed mcdermott of ato who raised the issue believing that the foreign language requirement is an extremely important issue for every member of the colgate community but especially for the students the senate also passed a resolution on - procedure sponsored by ira blatt senator from hascall hall which recommended that a two-thirds majority of the senate be required to close debate on any resolution and that the chair notify the senate at 9 p.m and at every half-hour thereafter the resolution was prompted by expressed dissatisfaction with certain procedural questions raised in the senate blatt's resolution is likely to be included in the by-laws of the senate when they are finally presented a five-man nominatinf athletics comm favors abolition of frosh teams by michael a hiltzik a major change will be effected in university athletics this year if a resolution recently passed by the commission on athletics is approved by the university council all university sports,with the exception of football basketball and ice hockey will eliminate their freshman squads in favor of junior varsity squads starting with the winter season of 1970-71 according to the resolution the athletics commission motion suggested by professor of physical education harold w lahar at the commission meeting monday adjusts the squad setup of those sports affected in response to ncaa and ecac rulings allowing freshmen to participate in varsity level sports the ncaa ruling allows the placement of freshman players on varsity teams in all sports except football and basketball the ecac ruling supports the ncaa ruling but adds ice hockey to the proscribed list of sports lahar maintains that the creation of jv teams would be logical in the face of similar moves by institutions normally sailing regatta organized by the new york state collegiate sailing league and held in cooperation with the outing club was held on lake moraine saturday for a schedule of outing club activities see pace 2 photo by wayne menke martin and michael testify before n.y panel on unrest by rod french student association president michael l michael and dean of students guy v martin told the state's henderson commission on campus unrest last week that student disorders on campus were the result mainly of the war in indochina appearing voluntarily wednesday at hearings held'at cortland state university michael said that much of cur rent student dissatisfaction and unrest can be analyzed in terms of student perceptions that his government is unresponsive martin maintained that for the first time in the last three years the unrest on the colgate campus was not directed at the university the events which evoked a major emotional and moral reaction among students were clearly national issues also in attendance at the hearings were associate dean of students donald miller student association vice president mark nozette and former student mobilization committee officer cary goodman who made im promptu remarks to the com mission we are asking our govern ment to degrade us less and to recognize us more often as the generally sincere and idealistic group we are michael said one with a great potential for attacking and solving many of our social problems...and we are asking our universities to de personalize us less and to re spond to us more individually and humanely martin said he thought the commission was interested in maintaining the welfare and inte grity of higher education in new york state adding that it was just a fact-finding commission and that no repressive legisla tion has come out of it martin reviewed the events on the campus that followed the united states invasion of cam bodia culminating in a meeting between university students and secretary of state william p rogers and a protest rally in washington he also noted our students have determined that pressure shall not be brought on anyone to conform to any view they have instead encouraged everyone genuinely concerned to do what each considers right and within his or her own abilities he concluded that,"the univer sity can no longer afford to be an ivory tower...at its best the university can accommodate the differences the experiments and the changes in individuals and groups which other areas of so ciety cannot if the university cannot ac comodate change and idealism where in society can it be ac commodated martin asked asked what good he thought the commission might have ac complished michael said he felt the impression made on the commission members by stu dents would be taken back to the state legislature and com municated to others he also hoped the commission would help"form more contacts between students and legisla tures and keep lines of com munication open so that problems could be worked out as they came up martin stated that the com mission has played a positive role in coming to understand that what is going on on the campus has no simple unambig uous answer . ." the henderson commission was created in 1969 by the state legislature to study growing stu dent unrest it was to a large extent the result of the seizure of willard straight hall at cor nell university april 18 1969 by approximately 100 black stu dents in protest against what they called racist policies at the university at some point during the protest the blacks who were holding willard straight hall armed themselves with guns and though there were no incidents of armed conflict the potential use of weapons seemed to many to be an escalation of the stu open hearing on military recruiting tomorrow night an open hearing dealing with on-campus recruitment by the military will be conducted by the student affairs commission tomorrow at 7:30 p.m in the jerome room of the case library students and faculty are urged to testify and the commission urges all who wish to offer comments to submit prepared statements the audience may ask questions following the meeting u.s marine recruiter capt donald frank will be present at the hearing any recommendations of the student affairs commission concerning on-campus military recruitment may be passed on to the university council for consideration continued on page 10 continued on page 11 continued on page 2

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the colgate maroon four changes ecology supplement - see page 5 founded 1868 vol chi colgate university hamilton n.y october 14.1970 no 11 marcuse marxist philosohpher to lecture in chapel tonight by cathy finkelstein for an analysis of marcuses thought see page 10 dr herbert marcuse new left theorist and educator will speak tonight at 8:00 p.m at the colgate memorial chapel in the second program to be presented by the colgate university union board lecture series when i came to this country in the thirties marcuse once observed there was a spirit of hope in the air now i detect a militarism and a repression that calls to mind the terror of nazi germany a jewish refugee from hitler's germany in 1933 marcuse has changed over the years from a new deal admirer to the political philosopher of today's campus revolutionaries in 1951 marcuses book eros and civilization outlined his theory that history is an end less confrontation between reason and imposed ignorance dominated by a ruling class that will resort to anything to pre serve its privilege he merged freudian and marxist philo sophies and preached sexual as well as economic liberation for the oppressed one-dimensional man marcuses second book has been called the bible of the new left he criticized american society as an industrial experi ment in which the logic of domination has triumphed he expressed his growing fear for those who found their soul in a split level home and who pas sively accept the limited af fluence of america abram sachar president of brandeis university hired the avowed marxist as a professor of politics at the young university in 1951 it was here that mar cuse espoused his theories that left their mark on many of his students abbie hoffman yip pie leader and angela davis were among marcuses pupils although marcuse holds a grim view of the future his one hope is that there will be a vic tory of reason brought about by a student-worder revolution this revolution he predicted will be as violent as the violence it combats despite the fact that he once worked for the state depart ment marcuse has been a voci ferous critic of american policy in vietnam since 1965 he sees pointless wars and weapons as a way in which the ruling class continues its domination at 71 marcuse has split philosophically with the revolu tionaries he has spawned lack of organization among the radi cal left has moved marcuse to remark that spontaniety is not enough it is necessary to have organization i cannot imagine how one can combat a society that is mobilized and organized in its totality against any revolu tionary movement against any effective opposition i do not see how one can combat such a society such a concentrated force - military force police force etc â€” without any organi zation it won't work ' dr herbert marcuse senate urges language requirement study by margaret digan the student senate passed a resolution monday night urging the academic affairs commission to conduct a study of the present foreign language requirement and recomment any pertinent changes which they deem necessary the resolution was sponsored by senator ed mcdermott of ato who raised the issue believing that the foreign language requirement is an extremely important issue for every member of the colgate community but especially for the students the senate also passed a resolution on - procedure sponsored by ira blatt senator from hascall hall which recommended that a two-thirds majority of the senate be required to close debate on any resolution and that the chair notify the senate at 9 p.m and at every half-hour thereafter the resolution was prompted by expressed dissatisfaction with certain procedural questions raised in the senate blatt's resolution is likely to be included in the by-laws of the senate when they are finally presented a five-man nominatinf athletics comm favors abolition of frosh teams by michael a hiltzik a major change will be effected in university athletics this year if a resolution recently passed by the commission on athletics is approved by the university council all university sports,with the exception of football basketball and ice hockey will eliminate their freshman squads in favor of junior varsity squads starting with the winter season of 1970-71 according to the resolution the athletics commission motion suggested by professor of physical education harold w lahar at the commission meeting monday adjusts the squad setup of those sports affected in response to ncaa and ecac rulings allowing freshmen to participate in varsity level sports the ncaa ruling allows the placement of freshman players on varsity teams in all sports except football and basketball the ecac ruling supports the ncaa ruling but adds ice hockey to the proscribed list of sports lahar maintains that the creation of jv teams would be logical in the face of similar moves by institutions normally sailing regatta organized by the new york state collegiate sailing league and held in cooperation with the outing club was held on lake moraine saturday for a schedule of outing club activities see pace 2 photo by wayne menke martin and michael testify before n.y panel on unrest by rod french student association president michael l michael and dean of students guy v martin told the state's henderson commission on campus unrest last week that student disorders on campus were the result mainly of the war in indochina appearing voluntarily wednesday at hearings held'at cortland state university michael said that much of cur rent student dissatisfaction and unrest can be analyzed in terms of student perceptions that his government is unresponsive martin maintained that for the first time in the last three years the unrest on the colgate campus was not directed at the university the events which evoked a major emotional and moral reaction among students were clearly national issues also in attendance at the hearings were associate dean of students donald miller student association vice president mark nozette and former student mobilization committee officer cary goodman who made im promptu remarks to the com mission we are asking our govern ment to degrade us less and to recognize us more often as the generally sincere and idealistic group we are michael said one with a great potential for attacking and solving many of our social problems...and we are asking our universities to de personalize us less and to re spond to us more individually and humanely martin said he thought the commission was interested in maintaining the welfare and inte grity of higher education in new york state adding that it was just a fact-finding commission and that no repressive legisla tion has come out of it martin reviewed the events on the campus that followed the united states invasion of cam bodia culminating in a meeting between university students and secretary of state william p rogers and a protest rally in washington he also noted our students have determined that pressure shall not be brought on anyone to conform to any view they have instead encouraged everyone genuinely concerned to do what each considers right and within his or her own abilities he concluded that,"the univer sity can no longer afford to be an ivory tower...at its best the university can accommodate the differences the experiments and the changes in individuals and groups which other areas of so ciety cannot if the university cannot ac comodate change and idealism where in society can it be ac commodated martin asked asked what good he thought the commission might have ac complished michael said he felt the impression made on the commission members by stu dents would be taken back to the state legislature and com municated to others he also hoped the commission would help"form more contacts between students and legisla tures and keep lines of com munication open so that problems could be worked out as they came up martin stated that the com mission has played a positive role in coming to understand that what is going on on the campus has no simple unambig uous answer . ." the henderson commission was created in 1969 by the state legislature to study growing stu dent unrest it was to a large extent the result of the seizure of willard straight hall at cor nell university april 18 1969 by approximately 100 black stu dents in protest against what they called racist policies at the university at some point during the protest the blacks who were holding willard straight hall armed themselves with guns and though there were no incidents of armed conflict the potential use of weapons seemed to many to be an escalation of the stu open hearing on military recruiting tomorrow night an open hearing dealing with on-campus recruitment by the military will be conducted by the student affairs commission tomorrow at 7:30 p.m in the jerome room of the case library students and faculty are urged to testify and the commission urges all who wish to offer comments to submit prepared statements the audience may ask questions following the meeting u.s marine recruiter capt donald frank will be present at the hearing any recommendations of the student affairs commission concerning on-campus military recruitment may be passed on to the university council for consideration continued on page 10 continued on page 11 continued on page 2